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Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack Makes Gas Demand Jump
MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images After the Colonial Pipeline oil company was hit by hackers Friday, shutting down a…
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Apple Document Leak Helped Right-to-Repair Movement
Photo: GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP (Getty Images) Cyberattacks are rarely useful to anybody except cyber-attackers, but a recent ransomware incident…
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Colonial Oil Pipeline Cyberattack Threatens East Coast Fuel
Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images) Over the weekend, a cyberattack by the Russia-based ransomware gang DarkSide managed to hamstring…
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Ransomware Forces Colonial, Largest Pipeline in US, to Close
Photo: John Randeris Hansen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP (Getty Images) If you live on the East Coast and see…
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Hackers Leak Data on D.C. Cops as Part of Extortion Scheme
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) In an attempt to extort some unknown amount of money out of the D.C. Metropolitan…
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REvil Claims to Have Stolen Apple Product Designs
Photo: Eric Thayer (Getty Images) Cybercriminals claim to have stolen blueprints for some of Apple’s newest products and are now…
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LinkedIn Job Offers May Actually Be Laced With Malware
Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images) With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we…
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Insurance Firm CNA Suffers Widespread Network Distruptions
Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP (Getty Images) CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance providers in the U.S., is currently experiencing widespread…
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Acer Reportedly Hit With $50 Million Ransomware Attack
Acer has reportedly been hit with a $50 million ransomware attack, the largest attempted ransom to date.Photo: Sam YEH /…
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